Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man

Hubert Laws | Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Gil Scott-Heron | Brian Jackson | Ron Carter

GSH aficionados will be more than familiar with this, one of the masterworks of his Flying Dutchman period. If Small...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Genre in issue: August/2014

Hank Crawford: Wildflower/Don't You Worry ‘Bout a Thing

If you like Creed Taylor's OTT soul-tinged productions, then this is for you, with Hank at his bluesy best on...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Ella Fitzgerald: Three Classic Albums Plus

Two LPs backed by Frank De Vol and one by Nelson Riddle would make a good package, but why add...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Andrew McCormack: First Light

Phil Klraus | Airto Moreira | Jack DeJohnette | Ron Carter | Hubbard

The ego of the average musician can ensure a steady stream of albums as leader regardless of whether the time...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Stan Getz & Chet Baker: Stan Meets Chet

Russ Freeman | Victor Sproles | Shelly Manne | Marshall Thompson | Carson Smith | Chet Baker | Stan Getz | Jodie Christian

This didn't turn out quite the way it was supposed to. On paper it looked like a safe-bet commercial proposition....

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2014

McCormack Yarde Elysian Quartet: Juntos

Andrew McCormack | Vincent Sipprell | Jenny May Logan | Jason Yarde | Emma Smith | Laura Moody

Andrew McCormack has a double release this summer, his jazz piano trio CD reviewed above and a new Third Stream...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2014

Chet Baker: & Strings

Marty Paich's string arrangements aren't the greatest, but in 1953-4, backed by Russ Freeman, Chet was on the finest playing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014

Yusef Lateef: Four Classic Albums: Jazz For The Thinker/Eastern Sounds/Other Sounds/Into Something

Oliver Jackson | Curtis Fuller | Wilbur Harden | Yusef Lateef | Ernie Farrow | Hugh Lawson | Barry Harris | Herman Wright | Elvin Jones | Louis Hayes

If ever there were titles in jazz that act as a grand metaphor for the essence of the music here...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Johnny Hodges/Earl Hines: Complete Recordings

Grant Green | Horace Parlan | Stanley Turrentine | Paul Chambers | George Tucker | Art Taylor | Al Harewood | Tommy Flanagan

From 1944 to 1970 this draws together three LPs and two other sessions – the complete Hines and Hodges: it's...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2018

Fletcher Brice Jozwiak: Nick of Time

Mike Fletcher | Tymoteusz Jozwiak | Olie Brice

This disc, recorded in a single afternoon, is the debut recording from a Birmingham-based improvising trio, who first came together...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2014